The Australia-UK-US defence accord, known as AUKUS, reflects rising global concern over China’s ascendancy. Here’s why it angers China.
The newly sealed Australia-UK-US defence accord, known as AUKUS, reflects rising global concern over China’s ascendancy. So does renewed activity within two other groupings of leading democracies, Five Eyes and the Quad.
At the moment, only six nations - the US, the UK, France, China, Russia and India - have the technology to deploy and operate nuclear-powered subs, which are faster than their diesel-electric counterparts, can stay submerged almost indefinitely and have space for more weapons, equipment and supplies.Five Eyes is an intelligence-sharing arrangement among the US, the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand that began with intercepted signals communications during World War II.
India, too, has become a less cautious member of the Quad, following clashes with China at their disputed border in the Himalayas.The most obvious use for those Australian nuclear-powered subs, with their capability to travel vast distances without surfacing, would be as a counter to China’s navy. Australia and the UK joined the ban; New Zealand didn’t but hasn’t approved Huawei involvement in 5G development. Canada was still deciding as of late 2021.
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